Tag Archives: Neal Adams

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (7 March 2022)

If, like me, you have been obsessing about the events in Ukraine, it may be healthy to take a small break every once in a while, just to manage the anxiety. For example, here is a reminder that comics can … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 September 2021)

Your super reminder that comics can be awesome: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali  Superman Adventures #3 Superman: Strength #2  

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 December 2020)

Back to our usual programming. Your weekly reminder that comics can be awesome, Jack Kirby edition:

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Neat B-level horror short stories

Last year I celebrated Halloween by posting about ten brilliant horror comic book short stories. I could easily fill another post with ten gems – after all, cool horror anthologies are a dime a dozen in this medium… However, this … Continue reading

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Expanding The War of the Worlds – part 1

A couple of months ago, I recommended (re)visiting H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds. This classic sci-fi horror novel became a massive influence on pop culture as the urtext for books, films, television shows, theatre plays, and video games about … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 June 2020)

Among the outrage and chaos, your heart-pumping reminder that comics can be awesome:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 April 2020)

As it often happens in scary times, the horror genre provides both a perversely comforting, vaccine-like sedative against overwhelming anxiety and useful metaphors to consider the wider processes at play. So here is your spooky reminder that comics can be … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (30 March 2020)

Media and politicians continue to refer to the ongoing pandemic as a ‘war,’ but I have some issues with that metaphor. It’s the kind of jingoistic language that is used to exclude any possibility of critical dissent, to exacerbate xenophobic … Continue reading

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The despicable pre-Crisis Man-Bat

Man-Bat isn’t one of the most inspired concepts in Batman comics. Taking to the extreme the notion that great villains are an inversion of the heroes, Man-Bat’s name is a literal reversal of Batman’s… As for his origin, it’s just … Continue reading

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15 wedding-themed covers of Batman comics

Valentine, Schmalentine. Still, everything can serve as a pretext to browse through goofy covers of the Batman family of comics… Throughout the years, brilliant artists like Neal Adams, Curt Swan, and Joëlle Jones have had a field day enveloping the … Continue reading

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